Members edmashburn Posted September 13, 2011 Members Posted September 13, 2011 Good evening to all- I hope no one minds this non-Ozark photo. I just joined this forum, and I thought i'd send picture of the fish we catch down here in the Gulf- it's been a very good season for red snapper- very short, but lots of big fish. I miss the smallmouth and trout fishing since I left the Ozarks, but I've found some sonsolation down here. Good fishing to all- Ed Mashburn
Flysmallie Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 Cool. I got in on some of that snapper fishing for the first time this year. Fun stuff. What area of the gulf are you in?
Members edmashburn Posted September 13, 2011 Author Members Posted September 13, 2011 Cool. I got in on some of that snapper fishing for the first time this year. Fun stuff. What area of the gulf are you in?
Members edmashburn Posted September 13, 2011 Author Members Posted September 13, 2011 Good morning- I fish everywhere from Lousiana to the Keys. I concentrate around my home- south alabama. Hope I get to go after redfish this weekend- need some pull back. Good fishing to all- Ed Mashburn
Mitch f Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 Good morning- I fish everywhere from Lousiana to the Keys. I concentrate around my home- south alabama. Hope I get to go after redfish this weekend- need some pull back. Good fishing to all- Ed Mashburn Great pics, I'm hungry when I look at a Red Snapper! "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Members edmashburn Posted September 13, 2011 Author Members Posted September 13, 2011 Great pics, I'm hungry when I look at a Red Snapper! Mitch- red snapper are good,and I would like to have a mess of snapper throats right now. I like mangrove snapper better, and they don't have a closed season. I probably like flounder best for eating, though. May have to make a gumbo this weekend- got myself thinking about food now- good fishing to all- Ed Mashburn
gotmuddy Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 I should be on the texas coast at the end of the month, and if I am lucky I will be doing some tuna fishing. I will be red and spec fishing regardless. everything in this post is purely opinion and is said to annoy you.
mic Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 I should be on the texas coast at the end of the month, and if I am lucky I will be doing some tuna fishing. I will be red and spec fishing regardless. Bring back some pics...will ya.
Tim Smith Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 Good evening to all- I hope no one minds this non-Ozark photo. I just joined this forum, and I thought i'd send picture of the fish we catch down here in the Gulf- it's been a very good season for red snapper- very short, but lots of big fish. I miss the smallmouth and trout fishing since I left the Ozarks, but I've found some sonsolation down here. Good fishing to all- Ed Mashburn Nice photos. This all connects to a hugely controversial management issue that has been going on in the Gulf for a while. The Feds have insisted that by shortening the season and reducing take, the total number and weight of harvest can be increased. They're basing that on estimates of catch from "back in the day" before the fishing pressure was as high as it is now. The commercial fishers have been hysterically opposed to this and insisted that there are already plenty of fish and things can't really get better. The scientists have replied that the fishers have gotten used to a degraded fishery and if they can be patient and let the stocks grow back to historical sizes the pay-off will be substantial. Jane Lubchenko, the head of NOAA has been villified and called everything from a tyrant to....things I can't type here. ..and yet....here the fish are getting bigger and more abundant just as predicted. Seems the scientists knew what they were talking about after all.
Members edmashburn Posted September 13, 2011 Author Members Posted September 13, 2011 In my occasionally humble opinion, the great increase in both the size and number of red snapper in the northern Gulf- Alabama water in particular- comes from last season's total closure because of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. No one fished, no snapper were caught. This year, all of the snapper are much bigger and much more aggressive- they are eating everything in the Gulf. Also, the gulf bottom is classically much like a pool table- flat, featureless with nothing to attract and hold fish. The Gulf states have both privately and publically put a great deal of fish attracting and habitat improving stuff- like old bridge rubble, storm damage stuff and even old army tanks. To cut my tirade short, for a lot of reasons, there are more and bigger red snapper in the Gulf right now than ever before. A short fall season would have been very nice. Whether the statistics used to determine fishing seasons are good or not is very much open for discussion- I do know for an observed fact, there are more big snapper around than ever before. Sorry, friends, didn't mean to go off-really. Ed Mashburn
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